The growing marginalization of dissent and the new seditious libel -- The growing loss of public space for collective expression of dissent and the failure of contemporary First Amendment doctrine to address this problematic phenomenon -- Security as a cellophane wrapper : deconstructing the government's security rationale for marginalizing public dissent and dissenters -- The right of petition in historical perspective and across three societies -- The jurisprudential contours of the petition clause : an examination of the potential -- Doctrinal shape and scope of a reclaimed petition clause -- The Selma-to-Montgomery march as an exemplar of hybrid petitioning